Effective cooperation as support for Ecuadorian criminal justice

Abstract

Objective. This research seeks to demonstrate the inexistence of a regulation or written procedure that allows the correct application of the figure of effective cooperation by the investigator, called in our legal system Prosecutor's Office, an agency that according to the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador and the Organic Code of Criminal Integral, is responsible for conducting the pre-procedural and criminal procedural investigation. In addition to verifying whether the information, data, instruments, or effects provided by the informant is real and reliable to allow the investigator to prevent the consummation of a crime or to discover the perpetrators or accomplices of the offense after it has been committed, to obtain the sanction or penalty, as well as a comprehensive reparation that benefits the victim and society. Methodology. It has been based on qualitative research through bibliographic data, with an explanatory descriptive depth and using dogmatic, legal, historical, logical, and analytical, synthetic methods. Results. Obtaining data through direct interviews to lawyers in free professional practice. Conclusion. The purpose of obtaining a procedure or guide that allows a correct application of the procedure of the legal figure of effective cooperation by the investigating agent.